I learned the first rule of repentance: that repentance requires greater intimacy with God than with our sin.

God must build our anointing strong, so He can lay His glory thick.

Christians must show that misery fits the good for heaven, while happiness prepares the bad for hell; that the wicked get all their good things in this life, and the good all their evil; that...

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we...

When, in 2012, Newt Gingrich was asked about how his religious beliefs would affect his conduct should he become president, the Republican nominee hopeful answered, “One of the reasons I am running is there has...

The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way – the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and...

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever...

When we lift our inward eyes to gaze upon God we are sure to meet friendly eyes gazing back at us, for it is written that the eyes of the Lord run to and fro...

It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.

Being a Christian does not make you immune to offenses. But how you react to offense is what sets you apart from the pack.

When our passion for the Great Commission, becomes our search for the Great Politician, we know we’re lost.

From my own personal experience I have consistently witness self-proclaimed Christians, get angry over insignificant issues, be unforgiving, and judgmental all while never looking in the mirror and proclaiming to the world their love for...

At what point, 2,000 years on from the life of Jesus, do we need a refresher course? Another 2,000 years? Imagine 100,000 years’ time – would the story of Moses’ burning bush amaze a generation...

disciple” – but also perpetual Christ incarnators . . .

no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” He is the solid, immutable Rock of Ages, and He can keep you stable. When your earth quakes, anchor your thoughts to His unchanging promises. When storms roll in,...

It takes faith to find personal significance in your relationship with God rather than how much money you earn, how beautiful you look, how many toys you own, how many trophies you collect, or how...

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew

If you yield yourself up to His divine working, the Lord will alter your nature; He will subdue the old nature, and breathe new life into you. Put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ,...

Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and a new model of human community, offering the ‘peace which passes understanding’ to...

who we are” fuel our sense of separateness

As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the...

we have been silent witnesses to

The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into focus. And when we do, even the memory of the pleasure becomes more...

And keep them thinking in terms of ‘being good’ as this is not an end so much as a means to something else —happiness, respect, self-esteem, etc… And whatever their true end is, take it...

And I’m glad to see that all three clients are male. Not that the females can’t be corrupted, I’ve just always found the males more amenable to temptation. The males have always had all the...

For a week the sun had been nothing but a puffy, seamless sheet of white, and this Tuesday had begun the same. But as the day progressed, the grayness receded like a mist, the sky’s...

He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.

The people your brother killed – well, they all had souls. They weren’t Satan. Ryu Yohan wasn’t Satan, either. His faith was twisted, that’s all. I know now. I know that God is innocent. (2007:...

We were so created to worship God that it is probably embedded in our spiritual DNA itself!

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

For the believer, the fact that God holds people accountable for what they read in Scripture is reason for rejoicing, for this means we have the privilege of hearing directly from God when we come...

In a nutshell, the difference between Christianity and all other belief systems is who you’re putting your trust in: in Christ, or in yourself?

This life is only a test’ is a counter-productive mindset; it encourages wishful thinking toward and elusive and likely non-existent afterlife while often enabling the believer to squander this life as somehow less important.

Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the expense of reality itself. They talk figures and icons and...

GOD Doesn’t Follow Your Timetable… And You Will Never Know His Timetable.

I don’t care what problem you face; it has no power to defeat the cross of Christ.

Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier — their Christianity, for example.

As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the...

Judas : handling betrayal with sincerity:

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at...

To fear only God’s power with trembling and dread without fearing (or respecting) His astonishing love is an incomplete response that diminishes our experience and enjoyment of Him.

I do not believe profanity has anything to do with Christianity, thank you.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

The Bible is the most important part of your faith.

please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions.

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.